Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carnival sharpshooter. Scott agrees to go along, and suggests a third partner, a sassy, fist-fast, trigger-quicker kid (Ronald Starr). The trio shortly becomes a quartet, as a naive but personable girl (Mariette Hartley) decides to swap the whip-hand threats of her religious zealot father for the ring-finger promises of a beau up at Coarse Gold...
From Manila to Bangkok these days, anyone who needs a tube of toothpaste has his choice of a baker's dozen of red-and-white packaged brands with remarkably similar names: Coalgate, Goalgate, Goldkey, Goldcat and Goldrat. The fact that all these ring like the name of the world's bestselling toothpaste-Colgate-is no coincidence. With the indulgent tolerance of Asian governments, most notably in Formosa, hustling commercial pirates are cashing in all over the Far East by duplicating U.S. consumer products-at least on the outside...
Massachusetts Democratic conventions are traditionally three-ring circuses, and the 1962 edition was no exception, despite the intense national attention centered on the main bout between President Kennedy's youngest brother and Speaker McCormack's favorite nephew...
...executive commands more social prestige than the most successful politician. But his incentive is somewhat stifled by the fact that he is expected to spend all his adult life with one company or risk being branded a job-hopper. In Germany the word "manager" has a disreputable ring and tends to be associated with boxing promoters; real status in German business is reserved for the Unternehmer, the risk-taking owner-entrepreneur. So addicted is Germany to the family-operated enterprise that some wealthy German families retain the power to fire the chief executive of corporations in which they have long...
Shut Up, He Explained, selections from Ring Lardner edited by Babette Rosmond and Henry Morgan. A justly famous U.S. satiric wit happily revisited...